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Hard Dance Awards preview: meet the regional heroes who keep the UK pumping!
Reported by Ed Real
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Submitted 25-01-07 00:31
Although the Hard Dance Awards have been held in London for the last couple of years, the awards is totally committed to showcasing and celebrating the scene all over the UK and beyond. Every weekend, promoters and DJs around the country hold events that keep the hard dance movement alive and kicking in their area and without them it'd be a smaller and a much less interesting business.
For the first time in the history of the awards, venue size allows us to doff our caps in the direction of those players around the UK whose hard work and commitment through the ups and downs make hard dance one of the most comprehensive and far reaching underground dance communities on the planet. Regional heroes we salute you!
Anyone who has had a go at putting on a party or club night will have seen just how much work and effort goes into dragging people away from Celebrity Big Brother on a wet winter night. These guys do it month in month out and have been on top of their game for years. Most of the big names playing in the other two arenas will have had the pleasure of meeting them and the HDA party on the 24th February is going to be when they all get to let their hair down. Everyone at Harderfaster is welcome to come and join in the fun…
Olly Perris & Andy T representing Addiction events & record label and London
NAME: Olly Perris
LOCATION: South London
EVENT: ADDICTION!
YEARS PROMOTING & DJ’ING: One year running a record label, six years DJ'ing
CAREER HIGHLIGHT: Touring Australia in 2005 and establishing Addiction Digital as a scene-leading label.
WHAT MAKES PARTYING IN YOUR PART OF THE COUNTRY SO MUCH FUN: London are the highest concentration of nutters in one space on planet Earth! But they all know and love their tunes, and they are most certainly the loudest!
WHO/WHAT STYLE DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE BIG IN 2007 FROM YOUR REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE: Who — Ashley James, MDA & Spherical. What style — the return of good, old fashioned boshing hard trance!
HOW BIG IS YOUR POSSE COMING TO THE AWARDS: We're representing London so technically around 4,000 people!
WEBSITE: www.addictionclubbing.com
NAME: Andy T
LOCATION: Maidenhead, UK
EVENT: Addiction Events/Addiction Digital
YEARS PROMOTING & DJ’ING: 3+ yrs DJ’ing/2+ yrs events/1+ years label boss
CAREER HIGHLIGHT: Apart from being booked to play at the 2006 Hard Dance Awards, it would probably have to be hearing Technikal drop Nick Rowland’s remix of ‘Overdrive’ (Addiction Digital’s biggest selling track) at our second birthday party at the Fridge, Brixton, last September. The dance floor was absolutely rocking and the club was packed! Watching and taking in the atmosphere from the side lines when Alf dropped Nick’s remix was such an incredible feeling! Everything I’d ever wanted to achieve was right in front of me and I’ll never forget that sight as long as I live!
WHAT MAKES PARTYING IN YOUR PART OF THE COUNTRY SO MUCH FUN: The variety! London has to have the most diverse range of dance music out of all the cityies in the UK, Europe and probably beyond! There’s just so many good promotions, so many good clubs and so many good people. Personally I’ve made so many good friends in recent years and it’s them that makes London the party capital for me.
WHO/WHAT STYLE DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE BIG IN 2007 FROM YOUR REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE: Well Addiction has always pushed hard trance with both our events and label releases, and all of our resident DJs are showing massive promise and are all contributing to the scene in a big way at the moment. Olly Perris, who’s both resident and co-label boss, has just been featured as a MixMag Future Hero and is securing some fantastic gigs in both the UK and beyond. MDA & Spherical have just been featured in DJmag and constantly come up with the musical goods, having been responsible for some of the biggest productions and remixes in 2006, not too mention their fantastic Live PA with Jennie Rix. Finally, Ashley James has been receiving praise left, right and center for both his DJ and production talents, so I’d have to stay loyal and say that UK hard trance hasn’t gone anywhere and with some seriously talented artists pushing things forward at the moment, it’s going to be bigger in 2007 than ever!
HOW BIG IS YOUR POSSE COMING TO THE AWARDS: Massive! It’s a London thing baby. See you all down the front!
WEBSITE: www.addictionclubbing.com/www.myspace.com/addictionclubbing
Mark H representing Polysexual and Birmingham
NAME: Mark H
LOCATION: Birmingham
EVENT: Polysexual
YEARS PROMOTING & DJ’ING: 5 ½ years
CAREER HIGHLIGHT: Global Gathering 2006 in the Polysexual Arena
WHAT MAKES PARTYING IN YOUR PART OF THE COUNTRY SO MUCH FUN: The people are what make partying great, the Midlanders are always well up for it! The venues are wicked too, they range from small intimate venues to your bigger superclubs. Recently there's lots of events on and wherever you choose to go there's guaranteed to be a great atmosphere!
WHO/WHAT STYLE DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE BIG IN 2007 FROM YOUR REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE: Local Brummie lad Riggsy is going to be huge in 2007. He is on fire at the moment with his production, definitely one to watch.
HOW BIG IS YOUR POSSE COMING TO THE AWARDS: My posse will be massive for the Awards including the Polysexual promoter Chris Moffit, many of my friends and my girlfriend who is organising the Lashettes. So I will be travelling down with the Lashettes!!! Lucky me.
WEBSITE: www.myspace.com/markhdj/www.polysexual.co.uk
Avaline from Tranzaction event and record label representing Cornwall & South West
NAME: Avaline
LOCATION: Truro, Cornwall
EVENT: Tranzaction
YEARS PROMOTING & DJ’ING: Avaline — over 10 years promoting, 7 Years with Tranzaction. DJ’ing for just over a year.
CAREER HIGHLIGHT: The success of my first production 'Never Sever' and countless sell out nights at Tranzaction, which will always stay with me.
WHAT MAKES PARTYING IN YOUR PART OF THE COUNTRY SO MUCH FUN: The clubbers down in the South-West are always bang up for a full on non stop party. Open minded, friendly, energetic, and just that little bit mad!!
WHO/WHAT STYLE DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE BIG IN 2007 FROM YOUR REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE: The 'in' electro sound influencing different genres. DJs such as Cally & Juice, Organ Donors, Alex Kidd — the guys that are bringing fun to the floor and more than just playing records!
HOW BIG IS YOUR POSSE COMING TO THE AWARDS: We got a right old crew of south-coast wronguns making the mission to the big smoke and I’m sure as well as the Tranzaction boys and girls there will be plenty of the Eyecon/Dance Academy massive joining forces to make the ultimate ‘av it force.
WEBSITE: www.tranzactionuk.com/www.myspace.com/avalinetranzaction
Brian M & McBunn from Bionic in South Wales representing Wales!
NAME: Brian M & McBunn
LOCATION: South Wales
EVENT: Bionic
YEARS PROMOTING & DJ’ING: 6 years promoting, 7 years DJ’ing for Brian and 6 years for Mcbunn
CAREER HIGHLINGHT: we've had some amazing parties over the last few years. this year has been our best yet, we've played some amazing gigs in Ireland, Germany, Italy all over Wales and the west in various festivals and clubs, we've also been successful in getting our productions signed with major hardstyle label Blutonium records ( www.blutonium,de ). We are also looking forward tour to Australia in April. there are so many highlights at the moment its hard to pick one, but recently on nye we played the midnight set in the arena we featured in at Slammin’ Vinyl’s NYE at NEC, that was wicked the crowd were nuts.
WHAT MAKES PARTYING IN YOUR PART OF THE COUNTRY SO MUCH FUN: the welsh crowd are always well up for it, creating some awesome atmospheres which makes it even more enjoyable when your playing.
WHO/ WHAT STYLE DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE BIG IN 2007 FROM YOUR REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE: well we are trying to help hardstyle grow in the uk so we hope this will grow even bigger, it is massive in Wales and big in certain other parts of the UK but growing and gaining new fans all the time. our sets have been going down really well at various new clubs where hardstyle is still a new genre, lots of people stomping down and becoming new fans of the genre.
HOW BIG IS YOUR POSSE COMING TO THE AWARDS: we've got a good following in Wales and west so it looks as if there is gonna be a good crew of crazy welsh clubbers coming along to this.
WEBSITE: www.bionicandbreathe.com/www.myspace.com/brianmvsmcbunn
Krunchie from Hard South representing Brighton
NAME: Krunchie
LOCATION: Brighton
EVENT: Hardsouth
YEARS PROMOTING & DJ’ING: 13 years DJ’ing
CAREER HIGHLIGHT: Being asked to be a resident at Hardsouth
WHAT MAKES PARTYING IN YOUR PART OF THE COUNTRY SO MUCH FUN: The energy of the Hardsouth crowd.
WHO/ WHAT STYLE DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE BIG IN 2007 FROM YOUR REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE: Vinylgroover will continue his drive on the hard dance circuit and consistently bang out wicked tunes. I also think hardstyle will make more of an impact in 2007.
HOW BIG IS YOUR POSSE COMING TO THE AWARDS: The Hardsouth Massive will be there!!!!
WEBSITE: www.krunchie.co.uk/www.hardsouth.com
Big Ben from Big! representing East Anglia
NAME: Big Ben
LOCATION: Cambridge
EVENT: BIG
YEARS PROMOTING & DJ’ING: 8 years
CAREER HIGHLIGHT: Winning the Award for 'Best Promoter' in East Anglia and setting up BIG Recordings
WHAT MAKES PARTYING IN YOUR PART OF THE COUNTRY SO MUCH FUN?: If you want to go to a good party you have to travel. Everyone knows everyone, everybody is there for that one reason (to have a great time) and it’s just a fantastic atmosphere!
WHO/ WHAT STYLE DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE BIG IN 2007 FROM YOUR REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE?: Hard dance & hardcore!
HOW BIG IS YOUR POSSE COMING TO THE AWARDS: Erm... BIG!! Very BIG!!
WEBSITE: www.bigdjs.co.uk
Matt Handy from Contact representing the South Coast
NAME: Matt Handy
LOCATION: South Coast
EVENT: Contact/various
YEARS PROMOTING & DJ’ING: 10 +
CAREER HIGHLIGHT: Love Parade, Holland
WHAT MAKES PARTYING IN YOUR PART OF THE COUNTRY SO MUCH FUN: The massive variety of events and up for it party people
WHO/ WHAT STYLE DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE BIG IN 2007 FROM YOUR REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE: Hardstyle
HOW BIG IS YOUR POSSE COMING TO THE AWARDS: Massiveeee! Three coaches of Hampshire Hardcore and counting!
WEBSITE: www.handsonrecords.co.uk
Steve Gillen from Cyberkitten representing the Midlands
NAME: Steve Gillen
LOCATION: Milton Keynes, Bucks.
EVENT: CyberKitten
YEARS PROMOTING & DJ’ING: Started DJ’ing in 1998 so 9 years now!! How time flies when you’re having fun. Enjoyed every second of it to be honest, and can’t get enough. Bring it on! Genres come and go, tracks peak and fade, styles develop… but I will always love it HARD.
CAREER HIGHLIGHT: Getting made resident for such a prestigious promotion as CyberKitten. It's been all go since then. It really did top off a crazy year in true style and I will always be grateful for being given the opportunity by Yojo & Colin to shine through and show just what I'm capable of. They have given me so much support and this HDA awards set is dedicated to them.
WHAT MAKES PARTYING IN YOUR PART OF THE COUNTRY SO MUCH FUN: The South Midlands Dance scene is fantastically energetic and creative. You’ll find a great cross section of excellent music, at your doorstep. The CyberKitten clubbers are like nothing else I have ever experienced. The night has a real friendly vibe along with a charged up atmosphere second to none. Colourful hard dance cybers mix easily with dedicated dude house lovers, everyone’s well up for piece of the action and no-one wants the party to end. That 'one more tune' can often turn into five more tunes. All I can say is why the hell not! We’re all out there to have fun and stomp our socks off. If I'm not playing the closing set you'll find me in the middle of the dance floor going for it.
WHO/ WHAT STYLE DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE BIG IN 2007 FROM YOUR REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE: 2006 saw a real mixture of styles and sounds. A fantastic step forward. I really do think the hard NRG sound is gonna explode before long. I have just finalised the first release for my hard NRG record label ‘Delete The Weak’ which is due out the end of February. It’s a showcase of all things filthy. I’ve teamed up with a number of talented artists to present a cross section of hard house and NRG. Spectrum runs from chunky sounds to peak time beats and killer filthy closers. This is a true representation of cutting edge, underground stompage. Give the people what they wanna hear. The mucky pupps! DJs to watch out for in 2007.... HyperVixen, Andy Rise, Matt Pickup, Neil E, Simon Vegas, Lucy Fur, Brad Duke and all of the CK bangers. These guys n gals know how to rock a show.
HOW BIG IS YOUR POSSE COMING TO THE AWARDS: Wicked wicked jungalist MASSIVE! Think we got half the county coming down to the awards to be honest. I know nearly all of the Crew and CyberKitten regulars are chomping at the bit waiting for this. Excited is such an understatement. Our party bus is gonna be rammed to the hilt for this trip. I’m sure we will have more than our share of mad clubber supporters there to fly the flag and bust some crazy moves.
WEBSITE: http://www.stevegillen.com/http://www.cyberkitten.co.uk
Chris Pollock from Kubik representing Liverpool & North West
NAME: Chris Pollock
LOCATION: Liverpool
EVENT: Kubik
YEARS PROMOTING & DJING: 2yrs promoting, 6yrs DJing
CAREER HIGHLIGHT: Regarding Kubik it was winning the award for Best Small Club of the Year at the Hard Dance Awards in Feb 2006. For my DJing it was playing the opening 90 minute set for the main Cream & Goodgreef arena at Creamfields 06!
WHAT MAKES PARTYING IN YOUR PART OF THE COUNTRY SO MUCH FUN: The people and the atmosphere they create.
WHO/ WHAT STYLE DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE BIG IN 2007 FROM YOUR REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE: Electro styles are coming through very strong up here at the mo.
HOW BIG IS YOUR POSSE COMING TO THE AWARDS: How long is a piece of string. See you all there!
WEBSITE: www.kubikevents.com/www.myspace.com/kubikevents
Photos provided by the interviewees. Not to be reproduced without permission.
Hard Dance Awards
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Saturday 24th February 2007
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Brixton Academy [map]
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21:00 - 06:00
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£22.50 / MOTD
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www.harddanceawards.com
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Ticket Info:
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Carling Brixton Academy Box Office - 0870 7771 2000
www.ticketweb.co.uk - 08700 600 100
www.harddanceawards.com
Never Enough Maria - 07813 684 399
www.toomuchbutneverenough.com
Cyberdog (Camden Market) - 0207 482 2842
Coaches
Cardiff coaches - Calling in Cardiff, Newport, Bristol and Swindon
- Call Jon on 07900 055 090
Milton Keynes & Surrounding area - Call Yojo or Colin on
07849 375 534 or e-mail cyberkittenkitten_events_uk@yahoo.co.uk
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By now you all know that we’re taking over the BRIXTON ACADEMY for the ultimate celebration of the hard dance scene, recorded ecxlusively by MTV for a one hour special. You’ve put a big red ring around FEBRUARY 24th 2007 and you’re already locked in fierce debate on the message boards as to who should get what award. Now here’s even more information to get in a state about…
VOTE HARD!
Click through to www.harddanceawards.com and get a load of our fabulous new site. With Top 10s for the year from the scene’s biggest artists, interviews with some of hard dance’s brightest stars and all you need to know about voting in the Awards, it’s our brand spanking new home and we’re very proud of it.
Voting is free to do and all categories are open except the Lifetime Achievement Award (see below). You can vote for anyone and have your say in who’s doing it right!
This year we have added two new categories; LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD and BEST INTERNATIONAL EVENT. The shortlist for the LFA has been voted for by the Hard Dance Awards committee and represents a selection of hard dance heroes without whom the scene would be a different place today. Plus we’ve introduced the Best International Event
category to cope with the thousands of fans voting from around the world. We want to see who is the biggest force outside the UK is!
Event organiser and the man behind the whole show, ED REAL is your host with the most alongside a mouth watering selection of industry characters lending a helping hand. In a change from previous years, the ceremony itself will be split up into three 15 minutes sections. LISA LASHES & LISA PIN UP, ANNE SAVAGE and ROB TISSERA, and the TIDY BOYS will each have a quarter of an hour to present a clutch of these highly sought after awards in between some stunning live acts and DJ sets.
GET TICKETS
As expected, all Early Bird tickets for this event have sold out in record time. But for only £22.50 you could be having it large with 4,499 other mental clubbers and all your favourite DJs. Putting it into context, that’s 4 packets of cigarettes, 36 packets of Max Flavour Paprika crisps or 21 Pot Noodles. To be precise. Want one (a ticket we mean)? Then just log on to www.ticketweb.co.uk and get yours before they all vanish in to thin air and you miss out on the biggest party of the year!
SPONSORS & MEDIA PARTNERS
MTV will be filming inside the venue for an hour long special programme about the event.
FACEPARTY, the world’s biggest party, will be joining us in all their glory to present the FACEPARTY AWARD FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL EVENT, which you can vote for in the coming weeks at www.faceparty.com.
PIONEER are giving us a brand new Pioneer CDJ1000 worth £800 to give away to one lucky voter who has their say on www.harddanceawards.com
TRACKITDOWN.NET is administering the voting process for the fourth year running. With over 3,500 dance labels supplying 100,00 tracks, www.trackitdown.net is the home of digital dance music online.
M8 MAGAZINE is the No 1 place to find out all the info you need to know about this years Ceremony. Keep your eyes peeled over the coming months for interviews and competitions as well as the exclusive 48 page Hard Dance Awards booklet in February’s issue.
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